Just recently I have been having trouble keeping my TC30 running, first of all my battery has been going dead and i think it is due to a short somewhere. To temporarily fix the problem I put a disconnect on the negative side of battery until I have time to find short. Charged battery up and tractor started and I shredded for about 3 hours before tractor died, it would not restart until I charged battery up. After charging battery I ran tractor for about 3 hours again and it again died. Battery is about 7 years old so I replaced it, tractor ran for about 2 hours and died, checked alternator and had to get it rebuilt. Started tractor and check to see if alternator was charging and got 14.6 volt across battery terminals, well, I thought problem was fixed, but tractor only ran for about 45 minutes this time and would not restart. I put battery on charger because it would not jump start and tractor only ran about 30 minutes, took new battery back and got a new on. Tractor started, but I shut it off to hook up things back up, I then tried to restart tractor but it would not turn over, not sure why. To make sure it wasn't a safety switch I checked all of them, all okay. I was able to jump start tractor and got it back to shed, it ran for about 30 minutes and it died, I tried jump starting again but it wouldn't start. Not sure what is going on, I need help.